Speaker details

Biography

Carlota Reyners is a Director in the Directorate General for Competition since 1st August 2023. She is in charge of the enforcement of antitrust, merger and state aid rules in the field of information technology, communications and media. In 2024, she was detached during two months to the Cabinet of the President of the Commission as acting Digital adviser. She previously worked for 8 years in DG CONNECT (the Directorate general for communications networks, content and technology) in charge of policy and legislative proposals in the electronic communications sector, leading legislative projects such as review of the regulatory framework for telecoms resulting in the 2018 European electronic communications Code or the 2030 Digital Decade Policy Programme. Between 2012 and 2014, she was Member of cabinet of Vice-President Neelie Kroes, Commissioner responsible for Digital Agenda. She has previously worked as case handler in the Commission’s Competition Directorate General as well as a competition lawyer in a leading European telecommunications company and a Brussels based international law firm. She holds a law degree from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and a Master in European law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles.